Mobility Airman profile: Pope Field Airman supports air transportation operations at Iraq base

Airman 1st Class James Simpson, 532nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron air mobility flight aerial porter, operates a forklift to move a cargo pallet, April 20, at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq. The flight recently took on a commercial cargo mission and made history by unloading its first 747 earlier this month. Simpson is an El Dorado, Ark., native deployed from deployed from Pope Field, N.C. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. R. Michael Longoria)